May 21—Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted a video May 20 celebrating his visit to a detention facility, where he taunted Gaza flotilla activists while they were forced to kneel on the ground, with their hands bound. Two days ago, the IDF illegally kidnapped them in international waters. The video displayed Ben-Gvir as a deranged clown, viciously taunting the peaceful, bound detainees as if they were terrorists, was far beyond the bounds of normal propaganda, revealing him to be a Nazi-like sadist, who should be in some mental institution and not running Israel's security forces. So much international outrage broke out that even Prime Minister Netanyahu had to disassoci

May 21—The UK Column, co-edited by EIR friend and associate, and British political maverick Mike Robinson in Plymouth, UK, has launched a quarterly journal under the name “The Column.” The first issue—Spring 2026—is a 126 page, glossy, full color collection of articles with the title “Deadly Deceptions—Inside the War Propaganda Machine,” with a picture of a Dove of Peace as a Trojan Horse firing at a fort with the words “It’s a gift from the Military Industrial Complex.”The article on the cover title, “Fabricating the case for war in the 21st century,” is written by Katherine Gun, the former GCHQ intelligence analyst who was tried for leaking a memo showing that the CIA called on GCHQ to hel

May 21—Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov gave an interview to TASS May 19 in which he made a number of points:Strategic risks of a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia are growing, which may have catastrophic consequences: Ryabkov highlighted “the escalatory narrative” from European capitals about “the looming threat of a high-intensity war” with Russia. “As a result of this escalation of tensions, including blatantly provocative moves in the nuclear sphere, strategic risks are increasing, as is the danger of a head-on clash between NATO and our country, with potentially catastrophic consequences as a result,” he warned.Russia cannot overlook NATO’s growing aggregate nuc

May 21—Large-scale projects were advanced between Russia and China, as reported today by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev. He reported, “One agreement is in the field of satellites and, accordingly, satellite production, satellite launches, and joint work in the space industry. The second partnership is joint investment with the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)… There are many joint funds that have already been created there, and we will actively invest together with them.” Dmitriev said the third agreement focuses on infrastructure cooperation with “a leading Chinese architectural company,” which he said would help implement “ver

May 21—The Presidents of Russia and China signed a joint declaration on May 20 during Russian President Putin’s state visit to China on the principles of a new multipolar world order and “a new type of international relations.”The statement is based on a series of similar declarations from 1997, 2005, 2017, and 2022, all of which highlight the needed and ongoing shift in the world away from neo-colonialism and hegemonism and toward a community of nations in which every country’s rights and development are respected and the voice of each is heard as an equal.The May 20 declaration, “Joint Declaration of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the Establishment of a Multip

May 21—Russian President Putin traveled to China for a state visit on May 20 with his friend and counterpart Chinese President Xi Jinping, during which the two leaders accomplished what Putin characterized as “successful, intense, and fruitful work.”Coming on the 25th anniversary of the Russia-China Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation (which the leaders renewed), the visit, and the Russia-China relationship in general, is an important intervention into an increasingly unstable world situation.During a press conference following a series of one-on-one meetings between the presidents and larger gatherings of the high-level delegations, Xi and Putin both underscored the im

May 20—The following is the unofficial draft for first part the May 17 Schiller Institute Chorus event celebrating America's 250th, which contains most of the texts read.PROLOGUE—ELVIRA GREEN(INTONED OR SUNG)IN ‘76 THE SKY WAS REDTHUNDER RUMBLING OVERHEADAND KING GEORGE COULD’T SLEEP IN HIS BEDAND ON THAT STORMY MORNOLD UNCLE SAM WAS BORNThose words are from a 1939 Cantata called “Ballad For Americans.” Ballad for Americans was performed on November 5, 1939, for a CBS radio show called "The Pursuit of Happiness," produced by Norman Corwin. The person that sang those words was Paul Robeson. Robeson, who spoke over 20 languages and sang in over 50, truly personified all of America, with his de

May 20—On Sunday, May 17, the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus held an enormously successful concert on New York City’s Upper West Side, with the title “America’s 250th in Music & Lore.” It was opened by opera legend soprano Elvira Green, who read an excerpt from Langston Hughes’ poem:O, let America be America again—The land that has never been yet—And yet must be…Ms. Green delivered historical narratives, including the “Massachusetts Petition,” and alternated with master storyteller Jonathan Kruk, who delivered anti-slavery speeches by John Quincy Adams and Gouverneur Morris. All of this was interwoven with spirituals sung by a chorus of 70 people.After the singing of Chester, America’s fi

May 20—Former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, who carries some weight within the MAGA networks and therefore with the circles around U.S. President Donald Trump. In his blog, he warns the President that he now has to deal primarily with the questions most affecting Americans, inflation and the economy, if the is to have a chance at success in the upcoming primaries, and the GOP more Generally in the mid-terms. Flynn also notes the growing disenchantment among the Trump base with any further military action with Iran.His advice to the President: Declare victory with a ceasefire combined with some sanctions' relief; establish some type of regional alliance, perha

May 20—Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has raised the long-needed, but rarely addressed necessity of re-claiming control of the United Nations Secretariat, so that the UN bureaucracy works on behalf of all humanity, instead of on behalf of the “interests” of the small clique of countries known as the “historic West,” both military and economic, more generally referred to as NATO.He opened his May 15 press conference in New Delhi after the meeting of the BRICS Foreign Ministers with a discussion of the need for “the systemic reformatting of the global economic structure” in order to facilitate the efforts of the Global South and East countries “to conduct independent foreign policy by

May 19—In outlining his four-point initiative for resolving the Iran crisis to EIR’s May 15 Roundtable, former Turkish Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister of Türkiye Ahmet Davutoglu proposed that the “Tehran Agreement” signed by Türkiye, Brazil and Iran in May 2010 could be a viable model for resolving the nuclear part of the Iranian crisis today. “According to this agreement, enriched uranium would have been deposited in Türkiye in exchange for fuel for a peaceful nuclear program in Iran,” he explained. Davutoglu, then Foreign Minister, together with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had negotiated the agreement.The text of that

May 19—NATO's puppet dictator of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, appears to be panicking as he warned last weekend of Russian plots to kill him and his inner circle, while also claiming that a Russian attack on Kyiv from Belarus is near. Various intelligence sources say that neither report has any substance behind it, and Zelenskyy is trying to deflect attention from internal problems within his regime, which may lead to his near-term ouster in a coup and/or his arrest for involvement in the corruption of his inner circle.Last week, Zelenskyy's former number 2, Andriy Yermak, who headed his Presidential office until earlier this year when it was revealed that he was involved in a scandal invol